'America is under attack': Dem candidates call for gun control after shootings

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Two shootings that killed 20 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, and nine people in Dayton, Ohio, in the early hours of Sunday morning brought immediate reactions from the crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates on the campaign trail.

Calls for a period of reflection before discussing politics, a familiar refrain for years in the wake of mass shootings, ceded to calls for increased gun control before all of the details of the attacks were known.

"El Paso is a community that shows up for one another—on our best days and our worst," former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who calls El Paso home, tweeted Sunday. "I met Rosemary's family on the plane back to El Paso. They asked that we visit her and share her story. She was shot in the chest but is doing well after surgery. She's strong—just like our city."

O'Rourke cancelled an appearance at California's San Quentin State Prison and returned to El Paso Saturday evening, where he visited University Medical Center.

"It's incredibly heartbreaking to see what these families are going through right now," the Texan said on a Sunday appearance on ABC News' "This Week."

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Putin, Bannon and their idiot puppet rump have been trying to kill us all for a while now, we

just catch on slowly. Along with Moscow Mitch etc.